Conferences
NYF Africa 2013: “We are not beggars,” says Ali Bongo
The Gabonese president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, speaking on Friday at the 2nd edition of the New York Forum Africa, invited Africans to work for...
Norwegian Crown Couple to visit CWC Ghana Summit
Norwegian Crown Couple, Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit will be travelling to Ghana in mid-April. The Couple’s visit to Ghana will be...
The Africa-EU Partnership must be enforced: What civil society expects of the Tripoli Summit
The Joint Africa- EU Strategy is an important instrument to strengthen the partnership between the two continents. However, the Strategy can only be successful...
Parliamentarians back call to action for green revolution
Accra, Ghana, 4 September 2010 – A group of senior African parliamentarians has supported former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s call to action at the...
Kofi Annan Receives Borlaug Medallion at African Green Revolution Forum
Accra, Ghana, 2 September 2010 – Former UN Secretary-General Mr Kofi A Annan was awarded the Borlaug Medallion by the World Food Prize Foundation...
International leaders call for new commitments at African Green Revolution Forum
Accra, Ghana, 2 September 2010 – International leaders today expressed their commitment to transforming agriculture in Africa while opening the inaugural African Green Revolution...
African Green Revolution Forum welcomes delegates to Ghana
Accra, Ghana, 1 September 2010 – Heads of state, private sector leaders and agricultural experts are arriving in Ghana for the inaugural African Green...
Obama meets young Africans in Washington
President Obama is convening a first-ever, three-day conference in August with more than 100 young leaders from a cross section of African life to...
Global Health Leaders to Sound Alarm on Dual Crises of HIV, Discrimination among Gay Men During Vienna Press Briefing
WHAT: Press Briefing - Be Heard: Elevating Issues Concerning MSM, HIV and Human Rights Key global health leaders to discuss the current state of...
G-8 Summit: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Egypt and 5 other African nations invited
The role of African nations in world affairs has been highlighted in the forthcoming G-8 summit in Canada. Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal...
African Union-United States talks opens in U.S. capital
The first U.S.–African Union High Level Bilateral Meetings opened at the United States Department of State April 21 with the goal of broadening the...
Detroit Branch NAACP to Announce Special Guest for 55th Annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner
The Detroit Branch NAACP will hold a press conference on Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 3:30 p.m. at the Detroit Branch NAACP located at...
Conference on the Africa Parliamentary Knowledge Network Kicks-off at PAP
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) today held a conference on the African Parliamentary Knowledge Network (APKN) discussing the significance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)...
Darfur: UNAMID Chief: Paris talks productive, SLA/AW pledges greater cooperation
UNAMID Joint Special Representative (JSR) Professor Ibrahim Gambari concluded yesterday a two-day session of Darfur peace discussions in Paris with high-level French government officials,...
Kenya holds Second all-Africa Carbon Forum to be held in Nairobi, Kenya on 3-5 March 2010
The programme is set and the list of participants is growing fast for the second all-Africa Carbon Forum, set to take place at the...
Black Journalists’ Group to Hold Conference on African-American Health and Health Care Disparities
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) will hold its annual conference on Health Disparities, March 4-6, 2010 at the Barbara Jordan Conference Center...
Travel ban affects Malawi President’s Commonwealth trip
Crippling foreign currency and fuel shortages have prompted Malawi
government to ban all foreign trips by government officials.
The ban has also affected that country’s leader,...
Addis Ababa: First ever media training workshop to be held at the AU Commission
The Division of Communication and Information of the African Union will be hosting, in collaboration with the United States Mission to the AU (USAU),...
U.S.-Africa Business Summit explores tremendous growth potential
American and African entrepreneurs and investors will meet face to face to develop relationships and to establish and expand business, trade and investment ties...
Jacob Fleming “Investments in sub-Saharan Africa”
While there is an Economic slowdown globally, capital is flowing into sub-Saharan Africa in an unprecedented scale. The economies are currently experiencing robust growth,...
Arab league summit: Drama or Summit ?
Sudan's president Mr. Omar al-Bashir was all smiles Monday after he received immense support from fellow Arab heads of states at the Qatar summit....
World Water forum: United States represented by an interagency delegation of technical experts
Acting USAID Administrator Alonzo Fulgham and Daniel A. Reifsnyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Sustainable Development, will lead an interagency delegation of technical...
France to tackle African economic problems in a Paris meeting
Paris will on 24 April host a symposium to discuss the pr oblems of the African private sector, official sources told panapress on Tuesday.
The...